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National and international politics of the past in Germany since the 1990s In many European countries, the revolutions at the end of the 1980s marked the transition to an unpredictable future and the transformation of interpretations of the past. Against this background, the article discusses the change of memory cultures in Germany since 1989-90. The second part examines the new opportunities for reparations for Nazi injustice after the breakdown of the communist regimes. The third part demonstrates the limits of reparations and explains why the German government stuck to its former rigid policy lines in this field. Although the Foundation EVZ marks a decisive step in reconciling the general policy of the past with new initiatives in the culture of remembrance, the current discussions on reparation claims, especially by the Polish and Greek governments, indicate that the dispute over the costs of the German occupation in Europe continues today.

Chapter 1: Marxism and social movements – a forgotten history?; Stefan Berger and Christoph Cornelissen -- Chapter 2: Marxist Historical Cultures, "Antifascism" and the Legacy of the Past. Western Europe, 1945-1990; Arndt Bauerkämper -- Chapter 3: Marxist Historians, Communist Historical Cultures and Transnational Relations in Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s; Thomas Kroll -- Chapter 4: Left-wing historiography in Italy during the 1950s; Gilda Zazzara -- Chapter 5: Remembering the Revolution: neo-Marxist Interpretations of the German Revolution 1918/1919 as Challenge for Cold-War historiography; Ralf Hoffrogge -- Chapter 6: Politically Engaged Scholarship in Social Movement Studies; Dieter Rucht -- Chapter 7: '…two monstrous antagonistic structures': E.P. Thompson's Marxist Historical Philosophy and Peace Activism during the Cold War; Stefan Berger and Christian Wicke -- Chapter 8: The Historical Cultures of the 1960s West German Peace Movement: A Learning Process?; Alrun Berger -- Chapter 9: Fugacious Marxisms: Some thought on the aesthetics of Marxism in the West German student movement (1961-1972); Benedict Sepp -- Chapter 10: Dispersion and Synchronization. Surge and Crises of the New Left in West German Leftist Periodicals in 1959 and 1976; David Bebnowski -- Chapter 11: The Hour of the Gun. Anti-Imperialist Struggles as the New Left's Hope of Salvation in Germany and Italy; Petra Terhoeven -- Chapter 12: Third Worldism in Italy; Guido Panvini -- Index